præscient

English

Adjective

præscient (comparative more præscient, superlative most præscient)

  1. Obsolete spelling of prescient
    • 1733–1734, Stephen Duck, A Poem on the Marriage of His Serene Highness the Prince of Orange with Ann Princess-royal of Great Britain. […], London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton […], OCLC 15632117, page 7:
      And if the præſcient Muſes guide my Lay, / Or, future Secrets, Phœbus can diſplay, / The Day ſhall ſhine diſtinguiſh'd from the reſt, / That Anna dignify'd, and Hymen bleſt; […]
    • 1753, Virgil; Christopher Pitt, transl., “Virgil’s Æneid. The Seventh Book.”, in [Joseph Warton], editor, The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. […], volume III, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley […], OCLC 931345126, lines 103–104, page 283:
      Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.
    • [1812], William Grisenthwaite, Sleep, a Poem in Two Books, with Other Miscellaneous Poems, […], Lynn: Printed for the author, by W. G. Whittingham, and sold by R. Baldwin, […], OCLC 38938371, book I, lines 77–79, page 5:
      Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— […]

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